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Rating: 
Summary: What Fun Is This?
Review: * I was something of a fan of the original CAT GIRL NUKU NUKU anime
series, which envisioned the heroine of the title as a very cute
super-powerful android with the cyber-augmented brain of a kittycat.
While the original NUKU NUKU was not a great work of art by any means,
it was a great deal of fun, consistently charming and goofy, and even
hilarious at times.As a result, when I saw that a new series -- NUKU NUKU DASH! -- had
been released, I had mixed feelings. It would be nice to get more of
the adorable Nuku Nuku, the original series only running six episodes,
but I was afraid that the new series would not be as inspired as the
original, since good comedy is one of the most difficult things to
write. The NUKU NUKU DASH! series generally rearranges the elements of the
original series. In the original, mad scientist Kyusaku, creator of
Nuku Nuku, was at odds with his estranged wife, Akiko, president of
Mishima Industries, while their gradeschool son, Ryonosuke, acted as a
voice of common sense when the fighting grew too intense. In NUKU
NUKU DASH! they're all one happy family, the Natsumis, with Kyusaku
and Akiko fighting on occasion but Kyusaku generally ending up
carrying Akiko in his arms to the bedroom, while Ryonosuke is a junior
high kid. Akiko now works for Mishima Industries, which is a sinister
organization run by literally shadowy figures. The original Nuku Nuku was a redhead with a kittenishly exhuberant and affectionate personality, plus a certain ignorance of how the real
world works (being basically a kittycat after all). The new Nuku Nuku
has pale green hair and a pleasant but somewhat bland and insecure
(and still basically ignorant) personality, until she shifts to
"combat mode", becoming a spandex-clad superheroine with a mission to
"protect life". Ryonosuke is crazy about Nuku Nuku but unaware of her
superpowered alter-ego. The evident thing about NUKU NUKU DASH! is that it takes itself more
seriously than the original NUKU NUKU series, trying to tell an
extended story instead of just jumping through something along the
lines of various Looney Tunes adventures. The problem is that it is
somewhat difficult to take a story about a super-powered android with
a cat personality very seriously. Ryonosuke's frustrated attempts to get close to the clueless Nuku Nuku
get tiresome quickly; Kyusaku is nowhere near as much fun as he was
when he was basically crazy; and such humor as exists is mostly
hamfisted pratfalls. NUKU NUKU DASH! also ramps up the "jiggle
vision", which gets downright annoying. I was happy to see the duo of
Arisa and Kyouku, in the original series Akiko's hilariously inept
flunkies, introduced in the last episode of this DVD, but it turned
out the two characters were oddly scrambled together (sort of like
they had been in a matter transporter accident together) and did
little more than act like 100% morons and hit each other. (In the
original series they were just smart enough to be dangerous.) The original NUKU NUKU series, like I said, was no great work of art,
with mediocre production values, and as far as the production values
of NUKU NUKU DASH! go, they're comparable. However, NUKU NUKU DASH!
seems to have decided that everything that made the original series
fun had to be removed. A hardcore anime fan might find NUKU NUKU DASH! watchable. As for
myself, when I got to the fourth and last episode on this DVD, I was
glad to be done with it. I would have gone through it faster if I'd
managed to figure out how to get the fast-forward on my new DVD player
working more effectively.
Rating: 
Summary: Not the OAV, but better! Nuku Nuku all grown up!
Review: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku Dash is COMPLETLY different plot line than the original OAV, good news is there are ALOT of references to the OAV. For starters Akiko and Kyusaku are happily married and living together with their 14 year-old son Ryunosuke. Nuku appears as a green haired, orange eyed 19 year old girl who has no memory about her life and only goes into combat whenever life is in need of protection. Also no high-school uniforms for Nuku anymore... but her "Power Ranger" costume makes up for it! The whole cast of characters are ignorant to the fact that Nuku and the "power ranger" are one and the same, and poor Ryu has a huge crush on BOTH. To make matters more interesting Akiko is a simple underling in Mishima Industry who is given the task to find the runaway MIFX-N2-009 Android (Unknown to her this is Nuku). This DVD has four episodes that show Mishima and Akiko's attempts to finding Nuku and Ryu's growing crush on Nuku. I will just give some basic plot points, will try not to spoil anything. Episode 1: Introduction of Characters and basic set-up. Good thing they used the voice actors from the OAV that is a Nice touch. Basically Nuku destroys Akiko's helicopter in a hero-like costume with ONE punch. Most notable moment: Kyusaku tries to hack into Nuku in his lab and fails... seems he knows more about her than he is letting on. Episode 2: Introduction of the next door neighbors. Nuku and Ryu are left home alone as the folks go to a hot-spring for three days... oh what is RYU to do. The neighbors are a woman and her daughter. The woman is a little easy to embarrass while the daughter is two-faced and seems very mature for a Kindergartener. Nuku faces off with... another Nuku! Most memorable moment.. Ryu accidentally falls into Nuku's chest... and Nuku is different than her assassin... Episode 3: Ooizumi (a mad scientist in Priest clothes...Yes that is the English voice actor for Lord Illpillatzo from Excel Saga) creates a flower girl robot to capture Nuku. Nuku and Ryu go one their FIRST Date?! Lots of cat references here. Most memorable moment: Ooizumi reading the Bible to awaken his "Daughter"... (I was almost expecting him to say "This world is corrupt" the whole time.) Akiko is promoted to chief of Capturing Android MIFK-N2-009. Episode 4: The pair returns! Akiko's assistants Arisa and Kyoko (from the OAV) are back and they are just the same as ever. They blow up a jet and are forced to work under Akiko for THREE years WITHOUT PAY! They go after Nuku and in the process ruin Akiko's perfect breakfast TWICE... not a good way to get in good with the boss... Notable scene Akiko cuts her hand as she punches a vase in anger and Nuku LICKS it like a cat! The DVD features a reversible cover and shows all new previews plus the other standard extra's you expect from ADV. Not to mention the book explains all the main characters in the DVD. Would highly recommend it to those who liked the OAV also for 15 years old and up as mentioned on the DVD case... violence and SOME brief nudity. Nothing major, just some things you might see in a PG-13 boarder-line R movie. They do a good job keeping the "vitals" covered. Plot 5 stars
Animation 5 stars
Extras: 5 stars As mentioned NICE Touch using the voice actors from the OAV. Plus the reversable cover is good to.
Rating:
Summary: Not the OAV, but better! Nuku Nuku all grown up!
Review: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku Dash is COMPLETLY different plot line than the original OAV, good news is there are ALOT of references to the OAV. For starters Akiko and Kyusaku are happily married and living together with their 14 year-old son Ryunosuke. Nuku appears as a green haired, orange eyed 19 year old girl who has no memory about her life and only goes into combat whenever life is in need of protection. Also no high-school uniforms for Nuku anymore... but her "Power Ranger" costume makes up for it! The whole cast of characters are ignorant to the fact that Nuku and the "power ranger" are one and the same, and poor Ryu has a huge crush on BOTH. To make matters more interesting Akiko is a simple underling in Mishima Industry who is given the task to find the runaway MIFX-N2-009 Android (Unknown to her this is Nuku). This DVD has four episodes that show Mishima and Akiko's attempts to finding Nuku and Ryu's growing crush on Nuku. I will just give some basic plot points, will try not to spoil anything. Episode 1: Introduction of Characters and basic set-up. Good thing they used the voice actors from the OAV that is a Nice touch. Basically Nuku destroys Akiko's helicopter in a hero-like costume with ONE punch. Most notable moment: Kyusaku tries to hack into Nuku in his lab and fails... seems he knows more about her than he is letting on. Episode 2: Introduction of the next door neighbors. Nuku and Ryu are left home alone as the folks go to a hot-spring for three days... oh what is RYU to do. The neighbors are a woman and her daughter. The woman is a little easy to embarrass while the daughter is two-faced and seems very mature for a Kindergartener. Nuku faces off with... another Nuku! Most memorable moment.. Ryu accidentally falls into Nuku's chest... and Nuku is different than her assassin... Episode 3: Ooizumi (a mad scientist in Priest clothes...Yes that is the English voice actor for Lord Illpillatzo from Excel Saga) creates a flower girl robot to capture Nuku. Nuku and Ryu go one their FIRST Date?! Lots of cat references here. Most memorable moment: Ooizumi reading the Bible to awaken his "Daughter"... (I was almost expecting him to say "This world is corrupt" the whole time.) Akiko is promoted to chief of Capturing Android MIFK-N2-009. Episode 4: The pair returns! Akiko's assistants Arisa and Kyoko (from the OAV) are back and they are just the same as ever. They blow up a jet and are forced to work under Akiko for THREE years WITHOUT PAY! They go after Nuku and in the process ruin Akiko's perfect breakfast TWICE... not a good way to get in good with the boss... Notable scene Akiko cuts her hand as she punches a vase in anger and Nuku LICKS it like a cat! The DVD features a reversible cover and shows all new previews plus the other standard extra's you expect from ADV. Not to mention the book explains all the main characters in the DVD. Would highly recommend it to those who liked the OAV also for 15 years old and up as mentioned on the DVD case... violence and SOME brief nudity. Nothing major, just some things you might see in a PG-13 boarder-line R movie. They do a good job keeping the "vitals" covered. Plot 5 stars
Animation 5 stars
Extras: 5 stars As mentioned NICE Touch using the voice actors from the OAV. Plus the reversable cover is good to.
Rating:
Summary: Its A Different Series Than The Original I Loved So Much
Review: First things first, this series is not exactly a "Bad" anime series, if you go into it with an open mind and not basing the content of this series off of the original that probably inspired you to buy it in the first place it can potentially be an enjoyable anime experience. Its just that basically all of the humorous slap stick fun that made up the original APCCGNN has been replaced by a quite serious tone that makes it seem liked a messed up anime terminator love story.
I was quite sad to find out that the producers had lyposuctioned all of the humor out of the original series during the production of this one because to me that was the original entrigue. All in all i was quite dissapointed and only gave it a 2 because it shares a common title with the origianl.
I have recently ordered the APCCGNN TV! series which seems to have brought back the original hilarious Nuku Nuku and i am anticipating it greatly . . . in my professional opinion buy the TV series and not this spin off.
Rating:
Summary: A woeful butchery
Review: I watched the OAV series 1 (NOT this one mind you) for All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku and was greatly impressed. I would rate it as the best anime I have EVER seen, and the third greatest thing I have EVER seen. I then proceeded to shell out big bucks to buy the complete Nuku Nuku Dash DVD set, and what did I find? They RUINED EVERYTHING! Surely not written by the same people. That is the best explanation I can come up with; I only hope it's true. I don't know for sure, so I may be wrong, but it is hard to imagine. Here is PART of the contents of an e-mail telling the man who sold it to me of my disappointment:
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Speaking of Tenchi, Nuku Nuku Dash reminds me of the frustration I felt when I started watching Tenchi Universe after watching Tenchi Muyo, naively expecting it to CONTINUE instead of reinvent the characters and have them all meet each other with different histories and as if they had never met before. Only this is worse. To put it mildly, I am disappointed. More precisely, I am dumbfounded. I am horrified... mortified. They took every endearing attribute of the character Nuku Nuku save the voice of Megumi Hayashibara (and in the OAV series 1, she is such an endearing character), every intriguing feature of the other characters as well (Akiko being a psychodic corporate gunslinger, almost literally, as well as a singleminded overprotective mother), every appealing characteristic of the story and every redeeming quality of the original series and manga in general and smashed it all to heck {for fear of Amazon cutting out my words but you know what I said}. Ryunosuke is now adolescent and even though he was the pivotal part in the creation of Nuku Nuku as an android, has never even heard of her before and is now promiscuously interested in her. Nuku Nuku is no longer a quirky lovable cat person but a mindless machine half the time and a mindless person the other half, the series as a whole now focuses greatly around attempting to show sexually arousing cartoon behavior instead of the brilliant humor or story I came to expect, and the fighting itself (not to mention that annoying he-man like thing she says about protecting life every time she transforms - you know, how He-man would always say 'by the power of greyskull, I have the power!') and whatever else is left behind is nothing else but every annoying characteristic of stereotypical anime. To compare Nuku Nuku Dash to the first OAV would be to compare a flashlight to the sun. As far as I'm concerned, the first OAV is the third greatest thing I have ever watched, and this.... this is an offense! It's actually an offensive defilement the original. It's as if I were to make a brown painting entirely out of manure (and some people do consider such things art) and then have the arrogance to name it "Blue Boy 2", or to make a crude snowman and call it "Michaelangelo's David 2". At least in Tenchi Universe, they were the same characters, although their histories and ways of meeting were changed a bit. This.... this, they flushed some great characters down the toilet. Rather than consider it to be the epitome of sequals to things that are worse than the originals, I henseforth choose to deny the existence of Nuku Nuku Dash. Surely it wasn't created by the same writer. I will look upon it as what it must certainly be.... bad fanfiction that went too far and somehow got itself produced. I can see why you sold them. I'm afraid I'm going to end up doing the same. ----------------------------------------------------------- Now, after reading all this, why would I ever rate it at 2 stars? Well, I had only watched the first 5 episodes. I sucked it up and finished it off. There are 12 episodes total (only 4 on the DVD this is posted for, but there is mode 2 and 3 too). I can say that they made a valliant effort to undo the damage they did in the first half, but the hole they dug themselves into was so very deep, the most inspired attempt in history couldn't have saved them. Really, if you are a BIG fan of the original like me, you are probably not the kind of person who will like this. Other than Mortal Kombat Annihilation, never has a sequel to anything ever been so much worse than the original.
Rating:
Summary: A woeful butchery
Review: I watched the OAV series 1 for All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku and was greatly impressed. I then proceeded to shell out big bucks to buy the complete Nuku Nuku Dash DVD set, and what did I find? They RUINED EVERYTHING! Surely not written by the same people. That is the best explanation I can come up with; I only hope it's true. Consider what I wrote to the man who sold me the 3 DVDs after I watched the first 5 episodes of this 12-episode series:
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Nuku Nuku Dash reminds me of the frustration I felt when I started watching Tenchi Universe after watching Tenchi Muyo, naively expecting it to CONTINUE instead of reinvent the characters and have them all meet each other with different histories and as if they had never met before. Only this is worse. To put it mildly, I am disappointed. More precisely, I am dumbfounded. I am horrified... mortified. They took every endearing attribute of the character Nuku Nuku save the voice of Megumi Hayashibara (and in the OAV series 1, she is such an endearing character), every intriguing feature of the other characters as well (Akiko being a psychodic corporate gunslinger, almost literally, as well as a singleminded overprotective mother), every appealing characteristic of the story and every redeeming quality of the original series and manga in general and smashed it all to h*ll . Ryunosuke is now adolescent and even though he was the pivotal part in the creation of Nuku Nuku as an android, has never even heard of her before and is now promiscuously interested in her. Nuku Nuku is no longer a quirky lovable cat person but a mindless machine half the time and a mindless person the other half, the series as a whole now focuses greatly around attempting to show sexually arousing cartoon behaviour instead of the brilliant humor or story I came to expect, and the fighting itself (not to mention that annoying he-man like thing she says about protecting life every time she transforms - you know, how He-man would always say 'by the power of greyskull, I have the power!' - or captain planet's 'by your powers combined...') and whatever else is left behind is nothing else but every annoying characteristic of stereotypical anime. To compare Nuku Nuku Dash to the first OAV would be to compare a flashlight to the sun. As far as I'm concerned, the first OAV is the third greatest thing I have ever watched, and this.... this is an offense! It's actually an offensive defilement the original. It's as if I were to make a brown painting entirely out of manure and then have the arrogance to name it "Blue Boy 2", or to make a crude snowman and call it "Michaelangelo's David 2". At least in Tenchi Universe, they were the same characters, although their histories and ways of meeting were changed a bit. This.... this, they flushed some great characters down the toilet. Rather than consider it to be the epitome of sequals to things that are worse than the originals, I henseforth choose to deny the existence of Nuku Nuku Dash. Surely it wasn't created by the same writer. I will look upon it as what it must certainly be.... bad fanfiction that went too far and somehow got itself produced. I can see why you sold them. I'm afraid I'm going to end up doing the same.Now, you may be wondering, why would I rate it at 2 stars after writing this? Well, I had only watched the first 5 episodes. I sucked it up and finished it off. I can say that they made a valliant effort to undo the damage they did in the first half, but the hole they dug themselves into was so very deep, the most inspired attempt in history couldn't have saved them. Really, if you are a BIG fan of the original like me, you are probably not the kind of person who will like this. Of course, how many people reading this could possibly have as high an opinion of the first OAV series as I do?
Rating: 
Summary: The same Nuku Nuku? No not at all.
Review: The Dash series is a good stand alone if you've never seen the original. If you have the original this has a Tenchi in Tokyo feel to it, you know all the players but every thing else is different. The dash story line is longer and gives time for a few, ever so popular, plot twists that keep the story interesting. There were two things that were a little on the irritating side, Nuku Nuku's statement of purpose (once was OK but it gets old after the second episode) and the English dub has to be the worst I've ever herd (I switched to Japanese W/ subtitles half way through the first episode). All in all I liked the new story line and recommend all three DVD's.
Rating: 
Summary: An okay anime
Review: This is ok. I got it and i thought this was kinda of boring but its good sometimes. Im probley not going to get all the nuku nuku dvds. I think this series as a slow story line.
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